The Net Delusion - Evgeny Morozov [221]
Winner, Langdon
Wired Italy
Wired magazine
Wise, George
Woodward, Bob
Wright, Robert
Wu Hao
Xenophobia
Xi Jingping
Xinhua News Agency
Yahoo
Yakemenko, Boris
Yandex Money
Yevtushenko, Yevgeny
YouTube
Yugoslavia
Zimbabwe
Zittrain, Jonathan
Zizek, Slavoj
Zuckerman, Ethan
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Evgeny Morozov is a contributing editor to Foreign Policy and Boston Review and a Schwartz Fellow at the New American Foundation. Morozov is currently also a visiting scholar at Stanford University. He was previously a Yahoo! Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University and a fellow at the Open Society Institute in New York, where he remains on the board of the Information Program. Morozov’s writings have appeared in the Economist, Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, the International Herald Tribune, the Boston Globe, Slate, Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the San Francisco Chronicle, Prospect, Dissent, and many other publications. He has appeared on CNN, CBS, SkyNews, CBC, Al Jazeera International, France 24, Reuters TV, NPR, BBC Radio 4, and BBC World Service. (Photo by Alexander Krstevski)
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A confession is in order here: I was one of the first to fall into the Twitter Revolution trap, christening similar youth protests in Moldova, which happened a few months before Iran’s, with what proved to be that sticky and extremely misleading moniker. Even though I quickly qualified it with a long and nuanced explanation, it is certainly not the proudest moment in my career, especially as all those nuances were lost on most media covering the events.
Copyright © 2011 by Evgeny Morozov
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